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Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 18, 2001, 9:03
Thomas Wier wrote:
>Quoting Padraic Brown <agricola@...>: > > > As for the DM, I think it's one of the Yugoslavian countries > > that, essentially, uses it as their currency (kind of like > > Ecuador and the US$). > >Actually, the official currency of Ecuador *is* the US dollar. >Last year, they changed over from a 1-to-1 rate peg to full >dollarization. (Argentina's been thinking about doing the same >thing for a couple years.) As for the former Yugoslavia, my >impression is that they just have useless official currency, >and so most of nonbartered trade occurs in German Marks (or >to a lesser extent, US dollars).
Still assuming that you're talking about Kosovo (an Western protectorate that in diplomatic fiction still belongs to Yugoslavia), no, the official currency is the euro, but until the euro coins and notes turns up at the New Year they're using DM as legal tender. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>